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A good country : a novel
- Title
- A good country : a novel / Laleh Khadivi.
- Author
- Khadivi, Laleh
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-7814 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 239 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict father comes easily. But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and two friends are making their way to Syria to join in the fight. Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all souls: Does a person decide how to live, or is their life decided for them? "--
- Series Statement
- Khourdi trilogy ; bk. 3.
- Khadivi, Laleh. Khourdi trilogy ; bk. 3.
- Subjects
- Syria
- Iranian Americans
- Iranian American teenagers
- Radicalization
- Bildungsromans
- Iranian Americans > Fiction
- FICTION > Coming of Age
- Iranian American teenagers > Fiction
- Civil War (Syria : 2011- )
- FICTION > Literary
- History
- 2011
- Fiction
- Laguna Beach (Calif.) > Fiction
- Syria > History > Civil War, 2011- > Fiction
- Radicalization > Fiction
- California > Laguna Beach
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-7814
- ISBN
- 9781632865847
- 163286584X
- LCCN
- 2016050042
- 40027281384
- OCLC
- 957022423
- Author
- Khadivi, Laleh, author.
- Title
- A good country : a novel / Laleh Khadivi.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Khourdi trilogy ; bk. 3.Khadivi, Laleh. Khourdi trilogy ; bk. 3.
- Chronological Term
- 2011
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027281384
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-7814